A comparison of foliage profiles in the Sierra National Forest obtained with a full-waveform under-canopy EVI lidar system with the foliage profiles obtained with an airborne full-waveform LVIS lidar system

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 136, Issue , 2013, Pages 330-341

  Zhao, Feng ^a,b   Yang, Xiaoyuan ^a,c   Strahler, Alan H ^a   Schaaf, Crystal L ^a,c   Yao, Tian ^a   Wang, Zhuosen ^a,c   Román, Miguel O ^d   Woodcock, Curtis E ^a   Ni Meister, Wenge ^e   Jupp, David L B ^f   Lovell, Jenny L ^f   Culvenor, Darius S ^g   Newnham, Glenn J ^f   Tang, Hao ^b   Dubayah, Ralph O ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g Environmental Sensing Systems   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airborne full waveform lidar system; EVI; Foliage profile; Ground based full waveform lidar; LVIS

Indexed keywords

EVI; FULL-WAVEFORMS; LARGE FOOTPRINT LIDAR; LIDAR SYSTEMS; LVIS; SPACE-BORNE LIDAR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRESTRIAL LIDARS;

FORESTRY; INFRARED DEVICES; VEGETATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOLIAGE; INSTRUMENTATION; LIDAR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FOLIAR ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; INFRARED DETECTORS; PLANTS; RADAR;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NATIONAL FOREST; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84879175294     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.05.020     Document Type: Article

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